 Hello and welcome in in the coaches corner. I'm Joe Wamba joined now with Dave Burdan head coach of the cross-country programs and coach You don't compete over the weekend yet again, but it's all in preparation for this weekend the important weekend Mac conference championship meet What what kind of things are you expecting? Obviously you had a lot of time to prepare What kind of performances are you trying to key in on for this this weekend? So I mean the biggest thing is to just improve on what they've been doing all season and then improve on last year Last year the men and the women both got sixth place, but the conference is so deep. So it's tough. I mean Anywhere from second to sixth place could be separated by it's not going to be separated by a lot of points, right? I mean so individually it could come down to one person maybe just you know putting a little bit of extra stretch area or Little extra effort in it on one stretch of the course. Yeah, exactly. I mean it could I foresee I mean second through fifth place or whatever with the team scores could be separated by as much as 50 points So it's going to be it's going to be a tight race. So I mean we can really only control What what we're capable of so if they go out there and run their best race Then that's all we can really do and that would go for both the men and the women Yep, so I mean that yep just the main focus is just improving that team score on the men's side I think Langston gash has a really really good shot of being top five in the conference Which has a sophomore. That's a really good accomplishment And then on the women's side is more of a more of a pack just trying to get them to run together Kelly Winklebauer is not running the rest of the season. She has a little bit of an injury So really the the rest of the woman just getting them to run together and push push each other And we've been talking about the weather Of course it affected your chance to go down to disney at one point affected the women running in 18 inches of water over at Salisbury Running in really hot weather when we hosted our own event We've had it all this season. It's it's awfully cold out there now What kind of is that the running conditions that you're looking for or what how is that going to affect? Possibility of a high performance on saturday, that's right now. It looks the conditions look ideal for saturday We're looking at anywhere between 50 and 60 degrees at the start of each race And it doesn't really get more perfect than that sunny and 55 is ideal Yeah, so with those perfect conditions, we're going to be looking for some Pretty good scores from from the team to on saturday. That's the goal Yeah, and good luck with that goal and then again Two weeks from that that meet will be the regional Tournament or championship. Yep. So the minis regional championship November 12th Okay, and we'll wish you the best of luck and we'll be talking to you again next week after the conference championship And hopefully be talking about some pretty good scores on men's and women's sides. Thank you. He's david and i'm joe wombin This has been the coaches corner